For more than a century, visitors to a remote California lakebed have stared at long, ruler-straight tracks etched into the mud and wondered how heavy boulders could apparently glide on their own. The ...

Start at the Furnace Creek visitor center in Death Valley National Park. Drive 50 miles north on pavement, then head west for another 30 miles on bone-rattling gravel roads. During the drive—which ...

In one of the hottest and driest parts of the world, there is a phenomenon that is most unexpected. At a remote dry lake bed ...